They havent moved to the Centre
They moved to the right.
We now have a right wing and an ultra right wing party.
There is no centrist or leftist party any more.
Even #Reaganomics would be seen as #socialism by the current #Democrats
THey spent the 20th century breaking communism, using the cover of "democracy" and freedom.
Now they are destroying centrism and freedom, revealing they were fascist all the time.
The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople
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... dumber the people, the more easily they can be controlled, as #Reagan and #GeorgeOrwell
discovered decades ago.
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1)
Dumbing of America:
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-we-get-here-the-dumbing-of-america-from-reagan-to-and-beyond/
2)*The clandestine logic behind "#Reaganomics"
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
3) If you like a good, high-school senior level of the Alignment of German society in the 1930's, I recommend this:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113908931207716944
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LATE IN YEAR TWO of #Reagan's first term (Oct on 1982), #Unemployment SKYROCKETED to 10.8% as he slashed the size of gov't.
He then went on a gov't hiring binge, dramatically growing gov't just to lower unemployment. FOR YEARS afterward, #Republicans praised "#Reaganomics" for lowering unemployment to 7.2% (the lowest in his 8 years.)
I FEAR THIS IS THE PLAN OF T****'S HANDLERS. Massive firing. Massive job loss. Spike unemployment, then rehire all those people & soak up the praise. 
#FarmersSpeakOut #TruthMatters #AgPolicy #CorporateFarming #RuralAmerica #SmallFarmsMatter #Reaganomics #GOPLies #IndependentFarmers #RuralVoices #AgNews #ResistProject2025 #WakeUp #RuralAmerica #FoxNewsLies #FarmersFirstRonald Reagan’s real legacy, charted and graphed. Spoiler: It’s not the bedtime story we’ve been told.
A visual breakdown of the inequality, debt, and mass incarceration still shaping our lives.
'Trickle-down' economics was never real.
I sometimes wondered how Ronald Reagan was transformed from a Hollywood actor to the father of our neoliberal economic disaster.
I just finished listening to Ginger Strand's phenomenal biography, "The Brothers Vonnegut" which revealed that General Electric hired him as a public relations hack and then radicalized him.
Kurt and his scientist brother, Bernard, were also employed by GE for a time, but they managed to hold on to their humanity.
#KurtVonnegut
#reaganomics #neoliberalism
I agree with you 
%.
However, this will only happen over many Republican dead bodies.
#Reagan realized this, and they have gone down this path ever since:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113205089642233141
"A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/ #economics #reaganomics #taxcuts
fashion is the politics of economics made into clothes.
a #GenX woman POTUS will have a huge impact on the politics & economics of #fashion.
GEN X was the first cohort whose adulthood was defined by the #austerity of #Reaganomics: outsourcing, mass layoff, market bubbles, bank bailouts, wars for oil, student loans indenturship…
most of us had to buy second hand EVERYTHING; and when new, to last.
with Harris & Walz, the truths of working class Gen X are finally center stage
1988's #TheyLive lands a bit different in 2024.
Cops that would have seemed militarized in '88 seem tame compared to the average officer I see on the street; workplace shootings push more trauma buttons. Bulldozing an encampment of people experiencing homelessness is more of a gutpunch. #Reaganomics still hasn't ended. But the fight remains awesome. #movies #CultFilm #JohnCarpenter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11dZSPIe9UU
How bad was President Reagan in 2min?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXrXtW89c9A
However, it wasn't just all Reagan. It was human nature of people who like to take advantage. Women entering the workforce en masse, married with kids, also reduced the pressure to provide a living wage for the single provider of the family. Why not take advantage of the double income situation and not keep up with inflation as they used to?
REMINDER
INSURANCE PARASITES do not want USA to have federally paid health care, a transcontinental public transportation system, federally underwritten affordable housing and even less, free public housing .
the #Reaganomics scam was to dismantle the barely there welfare system, while making workers pay for our own welfare thru insurance & personal debt (credit cards, student loans, mortgages, car loans) that lines the pockets of the parasite class
@design_law where are the reparations for all the lives destroyed by #MassIncarceration led by the genocidal #WarOnDrugs? nobody should get to trademark shit until everybody incarcerated for marijuana related offenses are freed and they, along with the surviving families of the dead get monetary restitution.
it's criminal this is being expedited while millions are still living with the consequences of #Reaganomics fascist policies.
When Ronald Reagan became President he strived for a 30% reduction in Federal aid to education. We saw horrendous cut in subsidies for school lunches. School districts suffered by the quadruple whammy of Federal cuts, state tax ceilings, loss of state revenue from taxes, and hostility to property taxes. They responded by laying off personnel, enlarging classes, simplifying curriculums, and taking other steps, all of which reduced parent & student satisfaction. #Reaganomics
TALK IT UP.
DO YOUR PART.
Weave the good Biden news into your conversations today.
• unemployment rate under 4% for 18 months, the longest stretch in over 50 years
• share of prime-working-age Americans with a job is at a 22-year high
• Wages are rising faster than inflation
#Bidenomics and the #GreatAmericanComeback:
• The unemployment rate has now been under 4% for 18 months, the longest stretch in over 50 years
• The share of prime-working-age Americans with a job is at a 22-year high
• Wages are rising faster than inflation
Unemployment and inflation are both significantly lower today (3.5% and 3%) than when Reagan ran "his Morning in America" reelection ad in Sept. 1984 (7.3% and 4.3%).
![[Red Text] When Donald Trump left office, 11 months after he recklessly downplayed COVID’s threat, the economy was down millions of jobs and 3,000 people were dying every day.
[Blue Text] Under Joe Biden:
Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan—jumpstarting the economy, reopening schools, vaccinating the country—and followed that up with historic investments in infrastructure and U.S. manufacturing.
The economy has added 13.4 million jobs and unemployment has been below 4% for 18 straight months, the longest stretch of sub-4% unemployment in 50 years.
[Bar chart: "Jobs Added/Lost by Presidential Term" showing bars for HW Bush 2,633,000, Clinton 1st Term 11,569,000, Clinton 2nd Term 11,335,000, W Bush 1st Term 80,000, W Bush 2nd Term 1,291,000, Obama 1st Term 1,196,000, Obama 2nd Term 10,374,000, Trump: -2,670,000, Biden 1st Term So Far 13,373,000; Republican bars in red, Democratic bars in blue]
[Blue Text] Democrats also passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and annual inflation in the US is now lower than in any other G7 nation and is lower than when Ronald Reagan ran his “Morning in America” ad during his 1984 reelection campaign.
Wages have risen significantly more than inflation over the past year.
[Red Text] MAGA Republicans voted to protect tax breaks for the rich and, instead of working with Joe Biden to reduce inflation, they’re focused on banning abortion, attacking civil rights, and putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/856/045/769/411/788/original/a18581782b9e3a82.png "[Red Text] When Donald Trump left office, 11 months after he recklessly downplayed COVID’s threat, the economy was down millions of jobs and 3,000 people were dying every day.
[Blue Text] Under Joe Biden:
Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan—jumpstarting the economy, reopening schools, vaccinating the country—and followed that up with historic investments in infrastructure and U.S. manufacturing.
The economy has added 13.4 million jobs and unemployment has been below 4% for 18 straight months, the longest stretch of sub-4% unemployment in 50 years.
[Bar chart: \"Jobs Added/Lost by Presidential Term\" showing bars for HW Bush 2,633,000, Clinton 1st Term 11,569,000, Clinton 2nd Term 11,335,000, W Bush 1st Term 80,000, W Bush 2nd Term 1,291,000, Obama 1st Term 1,196,000, Obama 2nd Term 10,374,000, Trump: -2,670,000, Biden 1st Term So Far 13,373,000; Republican bars in red, Democratic bars in blue]
[Blue Text] Democrats also passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and annual inflation in the US is now lower than in any other G7 nation and is lower than when Ronald Reagan ran his “Morning in America” ad during his 1984 reelection campaign.
Wages have risen significantly more than inflation over the past year.
[Red Text] MAGA Republicans voted to protect tax breaks for the rich and, instead of working with Joe Biden to reduce inflation, they’re focused on banning abortion, attacking civil rights, and putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block.")
My god, they sure *hate* #LinaKhan. This once-in-a-generation, groundbreaking, brilliant legal scholar and fighter for the public interest, the slayer of #Reaganomics, has attracted more vitriol, mockery, and dismissal than any of her predecessors in living memory.
She sure must be doing something right, huh?
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion
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